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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Bonneville
Power Administration Files Plan to Deal with Wind Farm Shutdowns (Oregonian, Portland)
Ex-Seattle Public Utilities Project Engineer
Charged in $1.1 Million Embezzlement Case (Seattle Times)
Two Powerful ‘X-Class’ Flares Erupt on Sun
(Christian Science Monitor)
Washington State Patrol Says It Will Pay for
Federally Required Radio Upgrade (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
Grant PUD Transmission Line Progresses (Columbia Basin
Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Ex-Seattle Public Utilities Project Engineer Charged in $1.1 Million Embezzlement Case
- Man steals $1 Million from Seattle, Bank of America Sits Idly By
- Grant PUD Transmission Line Progresses
- Two New Candidates Join Race for Clark Public Utilities’ Position
- New Location for the Mason PUD 3 Payment Drop box in Downtown Shelton
- The Spirit of Cooperation – 75 Years for Flathead Electric Cooperative
- Focus on Community Sets Electricity Co-ops Apart
- Pacific Gas & Electric Worker Socks Would-Be Robber in South San Francisco
- Navajos Look to Invest in Grid Connection Project
- Xcel Energy Working on Six Percent Electric Rate Hike Request
- Florida – Study Claims Ratepayers Would Save Millions if ‘Municipal Utilities’ Sell Out to Florida Power & Light
- Transmission Line Deal with Illinois Cable Plant to Bring 1,450 Jobs
- Two Powerful ‘X-Class’ Flares Erupt on Sun
- Chelan County PUD Approves Higher Water, Sewer Rates
- Bonneville Power Administration Files Plan to Deal with Wind Farm Shutdowns
- Receiver Hoping for Resolution on Hoquiam Paper Mill Soon
- San Jose’s SunPower to Provide Solar Panels for Apple’s New North Carolina Data Center
- Pepco to Build Washington, DC Biomass Plant
- Wind Power is Just Too Expensive to Actually Use
- Enhanced Safety & Energy Efficiency the Focus of NEEA & Seattle LED Streetlight Test
- Streetlight Test Shuts Down Busy Seattle Road
- Secrets of a Tribal Energy Auditor
- Did Climate Change Create Texas’ Hellacious 2011 Summer, Or Just Make It Worse?
- Electric Cars Seem to be Falling Out Of Favor after Volt’s Slow Sales
- Nissan Not Worried by Pace of Leaf Sales
- Hybrid Cars 101: How Long Should Batteries Last?
- This Lamp Absorbs 150 Times More Carbon Dioxide than a Tree
- Washington State Patrol Says It Will Pay for Federally Required Radio Upgrade
- Minnesota Wants to be a Broadband Backwater - Thanks, CenturyLink!
- Low Power is the New Black for Data Centers
- Democratic Washington State Rep. Deb Eddy to Retire
- Thurston County Auditor ‘Kicking Off’ Campaign for Secretary of State
- Congressional Shenanigans - Kucinich Move to Washington State Will be Hot Topic Again
- Jackie Miles Strickland, Former Port Commissioner, Sentenced for DUI
- Boy Receives Deferral in Bremerton School Shooting
- Pacific NW Timber Exports after Japan Quake Slower than Expected
- Thurston County Sheriff Warns; Gas Theft Might Rise
- Harstine Island Residents against Fudge Point Transaction
- Head of Sound Learning Steps Down
- Shelton Race Track - Economic Shot In The Arm?
- TransCanada Executive: New Keystone Route for Petroleum Pipeline in Weeks
WORD OF THE DAY
Truncated • \TRUNK-ayt-ted\ • Adjective - 1: having the apex replaced by a plane section and especially by one
parallel to the base 2a: cut short: curtailed b: lacking an expected or normal
element at the beginning or end; catalectic
James Dean’s bright career
Truncated by a car crash
Lived hard, died young, sad
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Ex-Seattle Public Utilities Project Engineer
Charged in $1.1 Million Embezzlement Case (Seattle Times)
Man steals $1 Million from Seattle, Bank of America
Sits Idly By (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle)
Grant PUD Transmission Line Progresses (Columbia Basin
Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Two New Candidates Join Race for Clark Public
Utilities’ Position (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
New Location for the Mason PUD 3 Payment Drop box
in Downtown Shelton (Mason County PUD No. 3)
The Spirit of Cooperation – 75 Years for Flathead
Electric Cooperative (Hungry Horse News, MT)
Focus on Community Sets Electricity Co-ops Apart (Electric
Co-op Today)
Pacific Gas & Electric Worker Socks Would-Be
Robber in South San Francisco (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
Navajos Look to Invest in Grid Connection Project (CBS
News)
Xcel Energy Working on Six Percent Electric Rate
Hike Request (Associated Press)
Florida – Study Claims Ratepayers Would Save
Millions if ‘Municipal Utilities’ Sell Out to Florida Power & Light
(Sunshine State News, Tallahassee, FL)
Transmission Line Deal with Illinois Cable Plant to
Bring 1,450 Jobs (Associated Press)
Two Powerful ‘X-Class’ Flares Erupt on Sun (Christian
Science Monitor)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Chelan
County PUD Approves Higher Water, Sewer Rates (Wenatchee World, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Bonneville
Power Administration Files Plan to Deal with Wind Farm Shutdowns (Oregonian, Portland)
Receiver
Hoping for Resolution on Hoquiam Paper Mill Soon – Grays Harbor PUD Keeping
Tabs (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
San
Jose’s SunPower to Provide Solar Panels for Apple’s New North Carolina Data
Center (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
Pepco
to Build Washington, DC Biomass Plant (Washington Business Journal, DC – Beware
of that first, single exposure!)
Wind
Power is Just Too Expensive to Actually Use (Forbes Magazine)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Enhanced
Safety & Energy Efficiency the Focus of NEEA & Seattle LED Streetlight
Test - Northwest utilities lead effort to demonstrate improved visibility &
safer streets (MarketWatch)
Streetlight Test Shuts Down Busy Seattle Road (KING-TV,
Seattle)
Secrets of a Tribal Energy Auditor (Bonneville
Power Administration)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Did
Climate Change Create Texas’ Hellacious 2011 Summer, Or Just Make It Worse?
(Dallas Observer)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Electric
Cars Seem to be Falling Out Of Favor after Volt’s Slow Sales (San Jose Mercury
News, CA)
Nissan
Not Worried by Pace of Leaf Sales (Nashville Business Journal, TN)
Hybrid
Cars 101: How Long Should Batteries Last? (Christian
Science Monitor)
This
Lamp Absorbs 150 Times More Carbon Dioxide than a Tree (Grist Online)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Washington State Patrol Says It Will Pay for
Federally Required Radio Upgrade (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
Minnesota Wants to be a Broadband Backwater - Thanks,
CenturyLink! (Broadband Reports)
Low Power is the New Black for Data Centers (GigaOM)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Democratic Washington State Rep. Deb Eddy to Retire
(Associated Press)
Thurston County Auditor ‘Kicking Off’ Campaign for
Secretary of State (Olympian, WA)
Congressional Shenanigans - Kucinich Move to Washington
State Will be Hot Topic Again (Everett Herald, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Jackie Miles Strickland, Former Port Commissioner,
Sentenced for DUI (Mason Web TV)
Boy Receives Deferral in Bremerton School Shooting (KOMO-TV,
Seattle)
Pacific NW Timber Exports after Japan Quake Slower
than Expected (Oregonian Public Broadcasting)
Thurston County Sheriff Warns; Gas Theft Might Rise
(KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
Harstine Island Residents against Fudge Point
Transaction (Mason Web TV)
Head of Sound Learning Steps Down (KMAS Radio,
Shelton, WA)
Shelton Race Track - Economic Shot In The Arm? (KMAS
Radio, Shelton, WA)
TransCanada Executive: New Keystone Route for Petroleum
Pipeline in Weeks (Associated Press)
DIVERSIONS
Ralph McQuarrie, Designer of ‘Star Wars’ Look, Dies
in Berkeley At 82
Scientists Say Moon May Have Crashed Titanic
Chicken McNugget Resembling George Washington Sells
for $8,100 on EBay
Photographers Mistake 66-Year-Old Debbie Harry for Lindsay
Lohan
SONG OF THE DAY
Blue
Moon - Chris Isaak
